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Recent Student Loan Actions Forgo $5 Billion in Repayments
Read moreThe Department of Education announced last week a six-month extension of automatic forbearance to all borrowers enrolled in the SAVE income-driven...
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The Fiscal Impact of the Harris and Trump Campaign Plans
Read moreNote: This analysis has been updated to incorporate new proposals announced by the candidates since we initially published on October 7. You can read...
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Bipartisan Senate Group Introduces the RESILIENCE Act
Read moreSenators Joe Manchin (I-WV), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Mike Braun (R-IN) recently introduced the Reassuring Economic Stability In...
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Proposed Hardship Rule a Brazen Attempt at Student Debt Cancellation
Read moreToday the Department of Education officially proposed regulations related to cancelling student debt due to “hardship.” It contains two provisions...
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The Impact of the Trump and Harris Plans on Spending and Revenue
Read moreIn our recent analysis, The Fiscal Impact of the Harris and Trump Campaign Plans, we found that the campaign policy plans from both Vice President...
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IRS Estimates a $606 Billion Tax Gap for 2022
Read moreThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently published its projections of the “ tax gap” – the difference between taxes owed to and collected by the...
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Tim Penny and Maya MacGuineas: What if they held an election and a budget process broke out?
Read moreTim Penny is co-chair of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and a former representative from Minnesota and Maya MacGuineas is president of...
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CBO Estimates Medicare Coverage of Weight-Loss Drugs
Read moreIn a much-anticipated release, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published projections estimating it would cost Medicare an additional $35 billion...
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PBM Reform on the Horizon
Read moreIn recent years, lawmakers have increasingly focused on reforms to Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) — the intermediaries owned or hired by insurance...
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The President Should Stop Borrowing Through Executive Action
Read moreThis week, a Missouri court will hear oral arguments in a case challenging the legality of President Biden‘s student debt income-driven repayment plan...
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What Would the Trump Campaign Plans Mean for Social Security?
Read moreThe Trump campaign plans would increase Social Security's ten-year cash shortfall by $2.3 trillion, make the program insolvent by 2031, increase...
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Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Introduce Employee Retention Tax Credit Repeal Act
Read moreIn response to concerns over fraudulent claims over the past few years, Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Thom Tillis (R-NC)...